Social Science Fiction, Thrillers, Occupations - Fiction
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Overview
Harrison Sinclair, director of the CIA, has been killed in a car accident. His son-in-law, Ben Ellison — an attorney and ex-agent — instantly hears rumors of sinister forces within the Agency. The hunt for the truth will rush Ben headlong into a web of conspiracy beyond his control, where he is compelled by an artful, inescapable maneuver back into the employ of the CIA, and lured into a top-secret espionage project in telepathy that will endow him with "extraordinary powers" . . . ."Spectacular . . . The action is unrelenting . . . Electrifying." Boston Sunday Herald
Personal tragedy drives Ben Ellison out of the CIA. But when his new father-in-law, the Agency's director, is murdered, they want him back. To make Ben the ideal man to find the killer, the CIA redefines "Intelligence" by improving Ben's mind in ways he could never dream of.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
A former CIA operative rejoins the agency to prove that the death of his father-in-law (the CIA's director) was no accident. (May)Library Journal
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, ex-CIA operative Ben Ellison believed that all spies had been forced to join the ranks of coal shovelers, typesetters, and Maytag repairmen. That is, until the mysterious death of his father-in-law, a CIA heavyweight. Now back in harness as a field operative, Ben begins to investigate the decades-old history of corruption and economic subterfuge. Using dated spycraft techniques, a ``trick'' memory, and an experimental medical process that enables him to read minds, Ben attempts to foil a plot to control the world. Actor David Rasche's reading of this abridged novel wavers between restrained enthusiasm and abject disinterest. Overall, the story is a bit superficial, and the presentation is lackluster. Purchase only where the book is popular.-- Ray Vignovich, West Des Moines P.L., Ia.School Library Journal
YA-A sci-fi espionage caper filled with explosive action. A former CIA agent, who became a patent attorney following his wife's brutal murder, is sucked into the spy business again after an especially powerful MRI turns him into a mind reader. After many fake deaths, double and triple agents, and lots of economic and political sabotage, the story ends with small news clips that hint at the well-being of all major characters the ones who appeared to have been blown away earlier. In an intriguing end note, Finder relates an interesting historical tidbit about ``a fortune in Soviet gold [that] remains missing to this day'' that the story is based upon. He also mentions that psychic research has long fascinated the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Soviet intelligence, leaving readers with ponderable issues to muse over.-Bunni Union, Geauga West Library, Chesterland, OHBook Details
Published
November 23, 2010
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Format
Audiobook
ISBN
9781427212818